Guercino, 1650 - The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga - fine art print

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Luigi Gonzaga (born 1568) was the eldest son of the marquis of Castiglione. He resigned the marquisate in favor of his younger brother, and in 1585 joined the Jesuit novitiate in Rome. He devoted himself to the care of the poor until he died of the plague in 1591. He was beatified in 1621 and canonized in 1726. Guercino’s altarpiece was commissioned for the Theatine church of Guastalla in 1650 by Duke Ferrante III Gonzaga (1618–1678). An angel holds a heavenly wreath over the saint’s head, while at his feet are a sheaf of lilies, representing chastity, and a crown, symbolizing the marquisate he had renounced.

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This work of art called The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga was created by the baroque painter Guercino. The original measures the size: 140 x 106 in (355,6 x 269,2 cm) and was painted with the techinque oil on canvas. Besides, the artwork forms part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. The public domain masterpiece is being provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1973. : Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1973. On top of that, alignment is portrait with a side ratio of 3 : 4, which implies that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Guercino was a male painter of Italian nationality, whose style can be classified as Baroque. The painter lived for 75 years - born in 1591 in Cento, Italy and died in 1666.

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